And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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